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13Apr

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Zafar Sarfraz, cricketer

Zafar Sarfraz a Pakistani cricketer who played in fifteen first-class and six List A matches between 1988 and 1992 for Peshawar cricket team On April 13 2020, Sarfaz died from COVID-19 complications. He retired from playing competitive cricket in 1994. Following his retirement, he became a coach and was involved with the Peshawar Under-19 cricket team. He also worked for the National Bank of Pakistan. In April 2020, Sarfaz died from COVID-19 complications. He was the first professional cricketer known to have died from coronavirus during the pandemic in Pakistan.

11Apr

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Sadaf Jameel, Nurse

Sadaf Jameel – a Nurse in Isolation Ward at Aziz Bhatti Shaheed Hospital, Gujrat, Pakistan – passed away on 10 April 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Sadaf was 38 years old. Source: The News Please help us in adding details.

Dr Syed Zeeshan Haider, General Practitioner

8Apr

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Dr Syed Zeeshan Haider, General Practitioner

Dr Syed Zeeshan Haider passed away in the United Kingdom on April 7, 2020 from Covid-19. Dr. Haider, a British Pakistani, had been a General Practitioner for more than 50 years. Dr Haider passed away after fighting the deadly coronavirus at the Queen’s Hospital. Dr Haider, who was in his 80s and lived in Dagenham, Essex is the second Pakistani origin doctor to lay down his life against the deadly Covid-19. Previously, Dr Habib Zaidi, an elderly doctor from Southend was the first doctor in all of the UK to succumb to the viral disease. After developing symptoms of the virus, Dr Haider was shifted to the hospital where he stayed for one week but he was unable to recover from the damage caused by the coronavirus. Dr Haider’s son, Dr Kumail spoke to Geo and The News and confirmed the pas...

Dr Abdul Qadir Soomro, physician and dermatologist

6Apr

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Dr Abdul Qadir Soomro, physician and dermatologist

Dr Abdul Qadir Soomro died on April 6 Dr Abdul Qadir Soomro, an eminent physician and dermatologist, died of COVID-19 in isolation while under treatment at Indus Hospital in Karachi on April 6, reported Gulf News. Dr Soomro who contracted the COVID-19 virus was hailed as a hero by the community as he lost his life while treating people suffering from pandemic, GN's Ashfaq Ahmed pointed out. Dr Soomro worked as medical superintendent of the Alkhidmat Hospital in Tharparkar — a remote area in Sindh province. Dr Soomro contracted the virus while treating his patients in the Gulshan-e-Hadeed locality of the city, and when his condition deteriorated, he approached the Indus Hospital Karachi where he tested positive for the viral ailment and was admitted to the isolation ward. At...

30Mar

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Malik Ashtar, Nursing Staff

Malik Ashtar - a Nursing Staff, Gilgit, Pakistan – passed away after suffering from COVID-19 on March 29, 2020. Malik Ashtar was 55 years old. Malik Ashtar, a radiology lab worker from Nagar district, had contracted COVID-19 locally while working with affected patients. He was transferred to a quarantine center set up by the district administration after he showed symptoms. Around a hundred other Coronavirus patients who have recent travel history, mostly to Iran, have been kept in this quarantine center in Minapin, Nagar. The affected paramedic Malik Ashtar passed away four days after being shifted to this quarantine center in Nagar, Gilgit-Baltistan’s most hard-hit district. His burial took place in Nagar under tight security and only concerned personnel wer...

29Mar

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Azam Khan, squash player

Azam Khan –a Pakistani squash player who won the British Open four times between 1959 and 1962 – succumbed to Covid-19 on 28 March 2020. This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Find sources: "Azam Khan" squash player – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (March 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) His brother Hashim Khan and granddaughter Carla Khan were also squash players. Azam was the second cousin of the two other leading Pakistani players of his time Roshan Khan and Nasrullah Khan, whose sons Rehmat Khan, Torsam Khan and Jahangir Khan ...

21Mar

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Dr. Usama Riaz, Physician

Dr. Usama Riaz is being hailed as a hero In Pakistan for courageously putting his life on the line to treat patients with Covid-19. Even though the 26-year-old doctor didn’t have adequate protective gear, he kept fighting for his patients until he eventually lost his life to the disease. He died on March 20. He’s a hero in Pakistan but the world should know his name. Riaz was part of a ten-person team screening pilgrims who recently returned to Pakistan from Iraq and Iran. He later treated these patients at isolation centers in Gilit, in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. On March 20, after treating his patients, Riaz went to bed but couldn’t get up in the morning. He was rushed to a military hospital for a CT scan but the equipment didn’t work. He was put on a ventilator and died two da...